Thunderbird Adds Native Microsoft Exchange Email Support - The Thunderbird Blog

https://blog.thunderbird.net/2025/11/thunderbird-adds-native-microsoft-exchange-email-support/

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Midnitte@beehaw.org · 14 pts · 267d (3 replies)

Awesome news - wonder if this will make its way to the mobile release...

overload@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 267d (2 replies)

I read the article and still a bit confused (I'm no email expert). Is the practical benefit of using EWS? I've got a Microsoft account email, but it has been working fine, I presumably set it up with IMAP/POP?

exu@feditown.com · 15 pts · 267d

In practice many Exchange enterprise admins disable or restrict protocols other than EWS. This feature allows you to use Thunderbird anyways and will also enable calendar sync in the future, another often restricted part.

cabbage@piefed.social · 10 pts · 267d

My work Microsoft account doesn't work at all with Thunderbird. With my previous employer it did, but now my only option has been webmail.

I really hope this fixes that. Haven't looked into it yet.

vurr@lemmy.today · 13 pts · 266d

They should also add support for Unified push. More apps need to embrace it! Currently there are no notifications at all.

_edge@discuss.tchncs.de · 6 pts · 267d (4 replies)

20 years too late?

Luci@lemmy.ca · 29 pts · 267d

The best time is always yesterday, the second best time is now. Let’s just be happy we got this much wanted feature without having to use a paid addon now!

frongt@lemmy.zip · 12 pts · 267d

Lots of people still use Exchange and 365.

bdonvr@thelemmy.club · 5 pts · 266d

Lmao a huge number of people use it for work still

shadshack@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 266d

They implemented it with EWS, a protocol which will be retired next year. Literally implemented it with less than a year before it breaks...

timbuck2themoon@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 266d (1 reply)

Nice but id love if they supported jmap next.

zarenki@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 265d

The absence of JMAP support seems even more strange when considering that the Thunderbird team is planning to sell email hosting with server software (Stalwart) that not only supports JMAP but seems to have a strong focus on it.

The Thunderbird Pro team even made a blog post today with pictures for the Thundermail account dashboard, one of which shows JMAP info: https://blog.thunderbird.net/2025/11/thunderbird-pro-november-2025-update/

dx1@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 265d

The minute I no longer need it.

Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone · -8 pts · 267d

I mean, weird flex but ok.